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Computer Building Woes... grahh help please

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iamleddy

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Alright soooo. I got a new processor, motherboard, and video card today.
AMD 64 3200 Venice Core.
EVGA GeForce 7800gt 256m
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130238
eVGA 133-K8-NF41
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813188002
To compliment these I have 1 gig of ram and a 350 watt psu.

When installing the processor I bent a few pins by accident slightly, so I bent them back with a credit card and it fit in the socket perfectly. Everything installed perfectly.

When I try starting my PC up my monitor will not turn on.
I unplugged everything except the graphics card and motherboard from the powersupply. It still will not work.

Did I fubar my processor? Or is my psu not powerful enough? OR am I just doing something wrong.

fixed links
 
Does it turn on at all?

Like - if you turn it on... fans come on, lights on the motherboard... can you hear the POST beep? or is it just dead?

Your link doesn't work for the motherboard you have... does it have an onboard video card? If you are plugging your monitor into your 7800 and your motherboard is setup to use the onboard, you aren't going to see anything... plug into the onboard, tell it to use the AGP/PCIe or whatever card you have...

Couple things for you to try... Report back 🙂
 
The proc is fine, it takes 3 or more times of bending to break them. It might be the PSU, what is the PSU? The 7800GT is really power hungry, and now that I think, most 350w PSUs don't have PCIe cables, so the PSU is the most likely cuplrit.
 
When I turn it on, All fans come on including gfx card and mobo. The Mobo lights are also on. No beeping occurs on start up. No onboard video. thanks! 🙂

edit: the psu is ghetto brand that came with a case, not the best in the world.
 
Make sure you have all three power connectors on the motherboard supplied with power.

Make sure you have the power connector on your vid card supplied with power.

Make sure you have no standoffs shorting the board out. You can start the board up out of the case by shorting across the two power pins momentarily.

Can you borrrow a known good non-ghetto PS to test with? I would say this is most likely the problem. Post the amps for the +12V rail(s) from the sticker on the side of the PS.

If you can lay hands on a good PS and the system still won't work, reset the CMOS, following the directions to the letter in the manual.

 
I'm gonna be ordering a good 430 watt psu, to see if that works.
But! shouldn't the computer require less power if I unplug stuff?
I'm just trying to get it to start up to the bios at the least right now, so all I have plugged in is the mobo graphics card and ram into the psu. I don't believe those would take 350watts. This is such a weird problem. gah...
 
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